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AHOLD'S FOODSERVICE UNIT SUED FOR OVERCHARGES AMSTERDAM Two customers of Ahold's U.S. Foodservice division filed a class-action lawsuit alleging they were overcharged for items, but Ahold here said the suit was without merit, according to reports. The lawsuit cites a Connecticut hospital and a family-owned Italian restaurant in Rockford, Ill., claiming that U.S. Foodservice used a fraudulent supply

Dec 18, 2006

AHOLD'S FOODSERVICE UNIT SUED FOR OVERCHARGES

AMSTERDAM — Two customers of Ahold's U.S. Foodservice division filed a class-action lawsuit alleging they were overcharged for items, but Ahold here said the suit was without merit, according to reports. The lawsuit cites a Connecticut hospital and a family-owned Italian restaurant in Rockford, Ill., claiming that U.S. Foodservice used a fraudulent supply system to overcharge customers by hundreds of millions of dollars between 2000 a